Links for 2023-04-28
WAR-GPT
Palantir demo’ed a battlefield assistant calling in drones and quarterbacking a battle in Eastern Europe...it’s a chatbot! But with federated data retrieval based on intelligence classification access rules...notifications 📣 come in to the chatbot (this is 🤖 bot prompting human) first time I’ve seen in any demo...order a surveillance drone in chat...see drone response in real time in chat window...
Thread: https://twitter.com/thealexbanks/status/1651560588362002433
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU
Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning: "We investigated the application of Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) for low-cost, miniature humanoid hardware in a dynamic environment, showing the method can synthesize sophisticated and safe movement skills making up complex behavioral strategies in a simplified one-versus-one (1v1) soccer game." https://sites.google.com/view/op3-soccer
How Italy's Ban on ChatGPT Revealed That Coders Already Rely On It: “We find that the ban of ChatGPT decreased output of Italian GitHub users by around 50% in the first two business days after the initiation of the ban,” [Discover Magazine] https://archive.is/W73Js (paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09339)
A Generative AI Upped Worker Productivity and Satisfaction—and the Lowest-Skilled Benefited Most https://singularityhub.com/2023/04/26/a-generative-ai-upped-worker-productivity-and-satisfaction-and-the-lowest-skilled-benefited-most/ (paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11771)
Answering Questions by Meta-Reasoning over Multiple Chains of Thought — “MCR outperforms strong baselines on 7 multi-hop QA datasets. Moreover, our analysis reveals that MCR explanations exhibit high quality, enabling humans to verify its answers.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13007
Chris Frantz: "Not to be too much of an AI Doomer but I just had a FaceTime call with a near realtime ChatGPT-powered AI avatar and it was…surprisingly human. Anyway, I recorded it. This is the actual response speed, it’s very fast." https://twitter.com/frantzfries/status/1651316031762071553
“How accurate are GPT models as models of language processing in the human🧠? Can we use these models to noninvasively control brain activity in new individuals? What are the stimulus properties that drive responses in the language network? We show that GPT can drive/suppress 🧠 responses in the language network of new individuals in a model-based, ‘closed-loop’ manner. We establish the ability of accurate models to control 🧠 activity in higher-level cortical areas, like the language network.” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.16.537080v1
Deep learning models might be secretly (almost) linear https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JK9nxcBhQfzEgjjqe/deep-learning-models-might-be-secretly-almost-linear
Mechanistically interpreting time in GPT-2 small https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6tHNM2s6SWzFHv3Wo/mechanistically-interpreting-time-in-gpt-2-small
How Similar Are Insect Brains to Human Brains? https://web.archive.org/web/20230418024653/https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-similar-are-insect-brains-to-human-brains
How We Prevent the AI’s from Killing us with Paul Christiano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyFkWb903aU
“Some ongoing observations on my subjective experience of programming and GitHub Copilot, 2 years in—” https://twitter.com/maxkriegers/status/1648036991785906177
Nuclear power causes least damage to the environment, finds systematic survey https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-nuclear-power-environment-systematic-survey.html
A Layman’s Guide to Recreational Mathematics Videos https://www.reason-alone.com/p/a-laymans-guide-to-recreational-mathematics
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976231165267
Why are East Asians more collectivistic? Why is their approach to thinking more relational and less abstract? They may have been pushed in that direction by the requirements of rice farming. https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/how-rice-farming-remade-east-asians
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